AW: [Air-l] Berlin Declaration on Open Access to Knowledge in the Sciences and Humanities

[jeremy hunsinger]

plos and plob probably aren't 'open' access, as they are not open at 
all really.  however, there is a significant amount of press and 
coverage on this. you can find things on open access journals quite 
easily either on my blog or on fos or many other places. it isn't the 
provision of things at no cost, it the provision of things that we have 
already as an international community significantly invested in, and it 
isn't open source, as much as open outcomes, because the source is set 
of human minds, and while they are open to interpretation, they are not 
open in the same way as code. ....  if you want more info feel free to 
drop me a note
On Friday, October 24, 2003, at 08:21  PM, Charles Hendricksen wrote:

> Nature has a news article on PLoS (Public Library of Science) in its 9 
> October issue (p554).  The author reports that some editors feel that 
> the "author pays" model will underfund the journal by a factor of four 
> or more.  Of note are two other financial factors: PLoS is being 
> subsidized to the tune of $9 million; and that some institutions will 
> be picking up the $1500 "distribution fee.
>
> S. Liban wrote:
>
>> Hi Jeremy!
>> This might be redundant for you - but there is a great hype about this
>> in German media - at least in such, that an intelligent person would
>> read...
>> The idea seems to be, that Science and its results should be available
>> to anyone without cost - seems to me, that the ideal of OpenSource
>> finally got to the acadamics, too... ;)
>> Interesting will be, how the big Science-Magazines will act....do you
>> have any source? I mean, most are American....so they should be the
>> first to shout...
>> Sorry, if this should be redundant - but I would greatly appreciate
>> any information on this, that you would like to share...
>> Take care and have a relaxing weekend!
>> Samater "Sam" Liban
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>> Samater Liban
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>>> Auftrag von
>>> jeremy hunsinger
>>> Gesendet: Mittwoch, 22. Oktober 2003 18:08
>>> An: air-l at aoir.org
>>> Cc: fibreculture at lists.myspinach.org
>>> Betreff: [Air-l] Berlin Declaration on Open Access to
>>> Knowledge in the
>>> Sciences and Humanities
>>>
>>>
>>> this is an interesting statement on open access
>>>
>>> http://www.zim.mpg.de/openaccess-berlin/berlindeclaration.html
>>>
>>> Jeremy Hunsinger
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